A court session held on Tuesday to rule on the Public Prosecution’s order to freeze the assets of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights was adjourned to December 6, when the judge will issue his verdict, according to lawyer Ragia Omran, a member of EIPR’s defense team.

Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call on Egyptian authorities to “immediately” release prominent human rights defenders detained since last week.

A leading Egyptian rights group, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), said on Monday that its recently detained director Gasser Abdelrazek was “in danger” due to poor conditions in jail.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday convicted 66 defendants Rabaa dispersal violence, which took place in August 2013 and killed 632 people according to the official count.

The Central Bank of Egypt has removed the names of seven people from lists of people whose funds are frozen in the case known in the media as “manipulating the stock exchange.”

An Egyptian court sentenced 59 suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement to 15 years in prison on Thursday for their alleged involvement in a high-profile 2013 sit-in, a judicial source said.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners, including journalists, politicians and students who had been held in pre-trial detention for more than a year.

Egyptian prison authorities yesterday sentenced four over the torching of a nightclub in the Agouza neighbourhood located in the country’s western province of Giza.

Cairo’s Economic Court sentenced on Tuesday social media influencer Hadeer al-Hady to two years in prison and fined her LE 100,000.

Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to “immediately halt” carrying out death sentences.